Carrier for ice-cream cones and the like



jufiy 8 1924. 11,50,6H

' W. L. EWEN CARRIER FOR ICE CREAM CONES AND THE LIKE Filed Feb. 8, 1922Patented July 8, 1924.

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WALTER L. EWEN, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

CARRIER. FOR ICE-CREAM GONES AND THE LIKE.

Application filed February 8, 1922. Serial No. 534,987.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVAL'rER L. EWEN, residing at Aurora, county of Kaneand State of Illinois, a citizen of the United States, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Carriers for Ice-Cream Cones andthe like, of which the following is a specification.

Generally stated, the object of my invention is to provide a holder orcontainer for ice cream cones which will serve as a convenient means forcarrying the same by hand as from the place of purchase to where it isto be eaten, which will be inexpensive to make, dainty and otherwiseattractive in appearance, and which will protect this attractive articleof food from injury or contamination while being carried. My inventionconsists in what is defined by or included within the terms or meaningof the appended claims.

In the annexed drawings,

Fig. 1 is a perspective viewof an ice cream cone carrier embodying myinvention 26 shown as in use;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof;

Figs. 3 and 4 are, respectively, plan views of the blanks from which thebody and cover are made.

The body, 10, of my. carrier is a frustoconical tube or shell havinginternal diameter which will be fitted by the upper portion of the icecream cone. Said body may be formed from a Segment shaped blank ofsuit-' able material, such as waxed or paraflined paper, as shown inFig. 3, the blank being turned into the circular form and its edgesoverlapped and glued or cemented or otherwise joined together. Atdiametrically op- 40 posite points, I glue or attach to the 'body theopposite ends of a narrow tape of a length to form a handle, 11, bywhich to suspend or hold the carrier and the cone su ported thereby fromthe fin ers or hand. f t5 course, I do not limit myse f to a handle oftape and the handle may be of other material.

The cover, 12, has a hemispherical or dome shape with a frusto-conicalrim or flange, 13, to that forms its bottom which is thrust or fitsbetween the inner sides of the body at the top thereof and the sides ofthe upper part of the ice cream cone, the dome thus arching over theheaped-up cream which characterizes the ice cream cone, and thus acomplete closure thereof is produced and by a structural shape which isattractive looking and which by reason of its arched form is not readilybroken down upon the enclosed cream, At its very top the cover has ashort length of string, 14, by which the cover may be removed, thestring being attached by being passed through a small hole in the coverand knotted within the latter. Of course, other means may be employed toeffect the ready removal of the cover, but a tab consisting of a stringor other material makes a very satisfactory de -vice for this purpose.

The cover, as shown in Fig. 4, is formed from a circular or disk-likeblank which is provided with radial corrugations, 15, that reach fromthe rim or edge to within, say, one-quarter-of-an-inch of the center, tofacilitate bending the cover into the hemispherical form and a V-shapednotch, 16, is cut inward from the rim of edge to a distancecorresponding with the vertical extent of the flange, 13, to allow theportion of the blank which forms the flange to be bent into the circularform it has in a completed cover. The cover is made of suitable materialsuch as waxed or paraflined paper and it has a normal tendency to expandso that the rim or flange thereof will be restrained in the carrier bythat tendency when the cover is inserted in the carrier. Thecorrugations, besides their useful purpose, enhance the appearance ofthe carrier.

I have already indicated particulars in which changes maybe made fromwhat is shown in the drawings and it is to be unr derstood that stillother departures may be made from what is shown in the drawingswithoutdeparting from the principle of my invention.

What I claim is:

1. An article for the purpose described comprising a hollow body with atapering interior and a cover with a circular flange at its bottom thatfits the interior of such body, the cover above such flange beindome-shaped and the flange being notched or slit from its bottom edgeupward.

2. 'Anarticle for the purpose described comprising a hollow body with atapering interior and a cover with a circular flange at its bottom thatfits the interior of such body, the cover above such flange beingdomeshaped and the flange being notched or slit 110 from, its bottomedge upward, and the cover having at its top a tab.

3. An article for the purpose described comprising a frusto-conical bodyof sheet I material, a handle attached thereto, a cover of sheetmaterial having a dome-shape and terminating at the bottom in a circularflange that fits Within the upper part of the body, said flange beingslit from its bottom edge upward, and a. tab attached to the 10 cover atthe top. a

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my' signature.

WALTER L. EWEN.

